Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from August 22nd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Blink Twice - Q&A with Director Zoë Kravitz
Aug 22 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
Rule of Two Walls - Q&A with Director David Gutnik
Aug 22 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Explores the war in Ukraine through the lens of artists living and creating amid utter destruction. Blurring the lines between what is happening in front of the cameras and behind, the film probes what it means to make cinema in a time of war
Mountains
Q&A with Writer/Director Monica Sorelle, Writer Robert Colom
Aug 22 (7:15pm)
Q&A with Actors Atibon Nazaire & Sheila Anozier
Aug 24 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Between the Temples
Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Actors Carol Kane, Robert Smigel & Cindy Silver
Aug 22 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Actors Robert Smigel & Madeline Weinstein
Aug 23 (6:15pm), Aug 24 (3:45pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Paradise Is Burning - Q&A with Mika Gustafson
Aug 22 (7pm), Aug 23 (7:15pm), Aug 24 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Three sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Q&A with Director Daniel Goldhaber and cast
Aug 23 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
I'll Be Your Mirror - Q&A with Director Bradley Rust Gray
Aug 23 (6:35pm), Aug 24 (6:35pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
After the death of her husband, a young woman travels to Japan where she finds solace in an old friend. But when his comforting turns to affection, she realizes she must give herself permission before she can fall in love again.
The Becomers - Q&A with Writer/Director Zach Clark
Aug 23 (7pm), Aug 24 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A body-snatching alien comes to Earth, reconnects with their partner, and tries to find their way in modern America.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Writer C. Mason Wells
Aug 23 (7:30pm), Aug 24 (7:30pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
I Like It Here - Q&A with Director Ralph Arlyck
Aug 23 (7pm), Aug 24 (4pm, 7pm), Aug 25 (1pm, 4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
People talk or laugh about aging, its irritations and relentless progression, but rarely confront the reality of dying or being left alone. Nor do they consider the lightness and calmness that can come when the race seems not so crucial.
Petrol - Q&A with Director Alena Lodkina
Aug 24 (1:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.
Strange Darling - Q&A with Actress Willa Fitzgerald
Aug 24 (6:30pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree.
Pieces of April - Q&A with Director Peter Hedges, Actors Katie Holmes & Patricia Clarkson, moderated by Azazel Jacobs
Aug 26 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Aug 26 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Lost in the Shuffle - Q&A with Director Jon Ornoy
Aug 26 (7pm), Aug 27 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Featuring two-time world champion magician Shawn Farquhar, this documentary explores the unique relationship between the art of magic and playing cards.
Roseland - Q&A with Director James Ivory
Aug 27 (4:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Writer C. Mason Wells
Aug 27 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Summer of Sam - Q&A with Actor/Co-Writer Michael Imperioli
Aug 27 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Ed Wood - Q&A with Co-Writer Larry Karaszewski
Aug 27 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
Merchant Ivory - Q&A with Director Stephen Soucy, Executive Producer James Ivory
Aug 27 (7pm), Aug 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.
Red Rooms - Q&A with Director Pascal Plante
Aug 28 (7pm), Aug 29 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial.
Me & It's Such a Beautiful Day - Q&A with Director Don Hertzfeldt
Aug 30 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.
It's Such a Beautiful Day - Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Save Yourselves! - Q&A with Actors Sunita Mani & John Reynolds
Aug 30 (7:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A young Brooklyn couple head to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.
Seeking Mavis Beacon - Q&A with Creators Jazmin Renee Jones & Olivia McKayla Ross
Aug 30 (7:30pm), Aug 31 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.
Me & World of Tomorrow - Q&A with Director Don Hertzfeldt, moderated by Ari Aster
Aug 31 (3:20pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.
World of Tomorrow - A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
My First Film - Q&A with Director Zia Anger
Aug 31 (7:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Follow a young filmmaker, as she recounts the story of struggling to make her first feature. Fact bleeding into fiction, and past, present, and future converging to create a modern myth that redefines the very act of creation.
Forbidden Planet - Intro by Don Hertzfeldt
Sep 1 (1:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Instrument - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen and Fugazi's Guy Picciotto
Sep 1 (8pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A collaboration between Jem Cohen and the Washington DC band Fugazi, the project covers the ten-year period following the band's inception in 1987. Far from a traditional documentary, the project is a musical document: a portrait of musicians at work.
The Remains of the Day - Q&A with Director James Ivory
Sep 3 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Pomp & Circumstance - Q&A with Co-Directors Adrian Anderson & Patrick Gray, Actor Ben Loftus
Sep 3 (8:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Three soon-to-be college graduates in Burlington, Vermont become entangled in an absurd plot involving their professor running for mayor, an Elvis impersonator, protesting students, and a group of radical artists.
His Three Daughters - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs, Actors Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen
Sep 4 (6:30pm - SOLD OUT)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Three estranged sisters converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Opening Night - Intro by Azazel Jacobs
Sep 4 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.
The Lords of Flatbush - Q&A with Director Martin Davidson, DP Ed Lachman, Editor Muffie Meyer, Actress Maria Smith
Sep 5 (7:15pm), Sep 7 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Two members of a social club in 1950s Brooklyn have more interest in romance than in rumbles.
Look Into My Eyes - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Sep 5 (7:30pm) Sep 6 (7:20pm), Sep 7 (7:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A documentary through a series of intimate sessions with psychics and their clients.
His Three Daughters - Q&A with Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs
Sep 6 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Three estranged sisters converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
The Mother of All Lies - Q&A with Director Asmae El Moudir
Sep 6 (7:15pm), Sep 7 (7:15pm), Sep 8 (6:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.
Meanwhile on Earth - Q&A with Director Jérémy Clapin
Sep 7 (6:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to Earth, who disappeared during a space mission.
I Lost My Body - Q&A with Director Jérémy Clapin
Sep 7 (9:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story - Q&A with Director Jennifer Takaki, Producer Linda Lew Woo
Sep 7 (1pm), Sep 8 (2pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
For 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders with epic focus. Determined to push mainstream media to include AAPI culture in the visual record of American history, Lee produced an astonishing archive of nearly a million compelling photographs. His work takes on new urgency with the alarming rise in anti-Asian attacks during the Covid pandemic.
From Russia With Lev - Q&A with Directors Billy Corben & Alfred Spellman, moderated by Rachel Maddow
Sep 8 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary exploring Lev Parnas' involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal that resulted in the former president's impeachment, detailing Parnas' unexpected entanglement with Trump and Giuliani, leading to his incarceration.
White - Q&A with Director Sayeeda Moreno
Sep 12 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
In a burning hot near-future, climate change has both devastated the planet and turned melanin into the world's most valuable commodity. When Nuyorican beauty LUNA has her newborn ripped from her arms just moments after giving birth, she is thrust into the merciless world of melanin harvesting to save her daughter, her community and spark a revolution.
Girls Will Be Girls - Q&A with Director Shuchi Talati
Sep 13 (7:40pm), Sep 14 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows the journey of 16 year old Mira, whose sexy, rebellious coming of age is disrupted by her young mother who never got to come of age herself.
Booger - Q&A with Writer/Director Mary Dauterman
Sep 13 (7pm), Sep 14 (7pm), Sep 17 (7:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
New Yorker Anna is faced with the sudden and unexpected death of her best friend and roommate, Izzy. As Anna grieves, Izzy's cat, Booger, runs away, leading to a desperate search, only to be bitten on the hand by the cat. Anna soon takes on feline characteristics and her work life and relationship with her boyfriend go downhill.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Q&A with Actors Paris Themmen and Julie Dawn Cole
Sep 15 (12pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
It's What's Inside - Q&A with Writer/Director Greg Jardin
Sep 16 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.
Spirit Riser - Q&A with Director Dylan Mars Greenberg
Sep 17 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. On their quest to reunite they discover their own supernatural abilities and meet many strange characters.
Wild Things - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 19 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.
Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? - Q&A with Director Joe Piscatella, film subject Nathan Law
Sep 20 (7pm), Sep 22 (7:30pm), Sep 23 (5pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
At 21, he was a leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. By 23, he became Hong Kong's youngest elected lawmaker. At 26, he was Most Wanted. The film offers to uncover what happens to freedom when an authoritarian power goes unchecked.
Condo Painting - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 21 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
John McNaughton's sole documentary, focusing on the work of painter George Condo
Normal Life - Q&A with Director John McNaughton, moderated by Heather Buckley
Sep 22 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Chris struggles as a cop, not willing to play along with dishonest colleagues. When he first encounters Pam, he is drawn to her chaotic energy, and the two quickly fall in love. But Pam bristles at any expectation that she be a dutiful wife, drawn as she is to the mysteries of far away galaxies and black holes, seeking the extraordinary. Only when she discovers Chris has started to rob banks to elevate their lifestyle does she emerge from the malaise, invigorated by the danger.
Here's a Q&A with Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs that followed a special members only preview screening of His Three Daughters at IFC Center on Monday, August 19, 2024.